Papers of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

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1 Reference Code: NRO 3410 Papers of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers NRO 3410/Bud Buddle Collection Creator(s): Buddle, John, d 1843, colliery viewer Buddle, John, d 1806, colliery viewer Immediate Source of Acquisition The papers were presented to the Mining Institute by Buddle Atkinson, a descendant of John Buddle's nephew, in various installments. The Buddle Collection comprises the working papers of John Buddle, d.1843; with some papers of his father, also John, d and papers of other viewers collected by the Buddles in the course of their work The major part of the collection is a series of report and memoranda books compiled by John Buddle junior together with colliery journals and diaries of work. The collection also contains colliery notebooks of John Buddle senior, a series of lining books, personal papers and a collection of bound volumes of the papers of Thomas Young Hall, mining engineer, also collected by the Buddle Atkinson family NRO 3410/Bud/1-31 Colliery Memoranda of John Buddle. Extent and Form: 31 VOLUMES Physical characteristics: Half bound leather entitled Colliery Memoranda and labelled with volume number on spine, vols 1-28 approx 37cm x 26cm and vols approx 26cm x 20cm, coat of arms of the Buddle Atkinson family inside front cover of each volume 31 volumes containing reports, correspondence, accounts and borings of John Buddle, senior and junior Arrangement Original numbered series,

2 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30 Colliery Memoranda Creation dates: Extent and Form: 108 pp Journal containing notes re colliery accidents and other items of local and scientific interest, the entries arranged chronologically, 31 Dec May 1825 subject index at the front Notes re the following Index of names of persons involved in colliery accidents, Name: Allan, James Colliery or Pit.: Lambton Page: 82 Name: Allan, James junior Age: 15 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Allan, Ralph Age: 18 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Allan, Robert Age: 12 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Allan, - Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 54 Name: Allen, John Colliery or Pit.: Howden Page: 70 Name: Anderson, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Anderson, William Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 66 Name: Angus, - Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Appleby, John Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Atkinson, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Longbenton Page: 70 Name: Bainbridge, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Baker, Edward Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Baker, Edward junior Age: 15 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Baker, Thomas Age: 25 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Barker, Henry Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Bell, George Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Bell, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 4 Name: Bellerby, - Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 43 Name: Blakey, George Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63 Name: Blakey, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63, 66 Name: Blakey, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: Name: Brayson, Andrew Colliery or Pit.: Hetton Page: 7 Name: Britton, James Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 60 Name: Browell, Ralph Age: 9 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Browell, William Age: 22 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Brown, James Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 70 Name: Brown - Colliery or Pit.: Willington Page: 10 Name: Buddle, Roger Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 89 Name: Carrick, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 71 Name: Charlton, Charles Colliery or Pit.: Willington Page: 15 Name: Charlton, John Colliery or Pit.: Backworth Page: 83 Name: Chisholm, Thomas Age: 20 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Clark, John Age: boy Colliery or Pit.: Collingwood Main Page: 72 Name: Clasper, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 72 Name: Clennet, - Colliery or Pit.: Howden Page: 67

3 Name: Codling, Nicholas Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Comby, William Colliery or Pit.: Collingwood Main Page: 10 Name: Cooper, George Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Copling, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 44 Name: Corby, H Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 44 Name: Cowen, Christopher Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Cowen, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Cowen, John Age: 10 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Coxon, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 82 Name: Crisp, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 66 Name: Croudace, John Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 89 Name: Cummins, William Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63 Name: Curry, William Colliery or Pit.: Lambton Page: 15 Name: Curtis? Jackel Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Dawson, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Dawson, Thomas olliery or Pit.: Lumley Page: 46 Name: Dickinson, James Age: 10 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Dickinson, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Dixon, Anthony Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Dixon, Arthur Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Dixon, Francis Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 29 Name: Dixon, Henry Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Dixon, James Age: boy Colliery or Pit.: Collingwood Main Page: 72 Name: Dixon, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton page: 7 Name: Dodds, James Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Dodds, S Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Dotchin, Timothy Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 44 Name: Elliott, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 86 Name: Elliott, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Ellis, John Colliery or Pit.: Oxclose Page: 23 Name: Emmery, George Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Emmery, John Age: 13 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: English, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Fenwick, George Age: 12 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Fogget, George Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Fogget, Robert, Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Fogget, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Forster - Colliery or Pit.: Howden Page: 40 Name: Frames, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Frizzell, Richard Colliery or Pit.: Manor Wallsend Page: 39 Name: Gallilee, George Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Gallilee, Thomas Age: 16 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Gallilee, William Age: 20 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Gardner, Charles Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gardner, Joseph Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gardner, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gibson, Edward Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Gibson, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Gibson, Nicholas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gibson, Richard Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7

4 Name: Gibson, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gibson - Colliery or Pit.: Washington Page: 9 Name: Gordon, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Gordon, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Graham, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7-8 Name: Gray, Christopher Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Gray, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Greenwell, James Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 4 Name: Greenwell, Joseph Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Grene, - Colliery or Pit.: Killingworth Page: 29 Name: Grundy, Thomas Age: 54 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Hall, George Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 56, 58 Name: Hall, Ralph Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Hall, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Hall, William Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 4 Name: Harbottle, Ralph Age: 80 Colliery or Pit.: Backworth Page: 93 Name: Harvey, William Age: 24 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Henderson, George Colliery or Pit.: Lumley Page: 46 Name: Hepburn, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: Name: Heppell, William Colliery or Pit.: Whitehaven Page: 17 Name: Hills, George Age: 8 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, George Age: 7 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, John, sen Age: 43 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Michael Age: 8 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Michael Age: 12 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Michael, sen Age: 66 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Pearson Age: 25 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Robert Age: 10 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Hills, Thomas Age: 8 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Holt, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 71 Name: Hood, Lancelot Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Hope Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Hunter, William Colliery or Pit.: Percy Pit Page: 23 Name: Ingleby, - Colliery or Pit.: Walbottle Page: 30 Name: Isliy, John Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 98 Name: Jackson, George Colliery or Pit.: Harrton Page: 53 Name: Jackson, George Age: 25 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Jackson, George Age: 7 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Jackson, William Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Jefferson, - Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 23 Name: Jeffrey, - Colliery or Pit.: Shilbottle Page: 3 Name: Jewitt, William Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Jobling, Ralph Age: 9 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Johnson, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: King, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Laws, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Ledger, George Age: c.16 Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill, Page: 11, 13 Name: Liddel, Joseph Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 70 Name: Lumsdon, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Melvin, George Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63-66

5 Name: Melvin, John Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63, 66 Name: Miller, David Colliery or Pit.: Manor Wallsend Page: 39 Name: Miller, Nicholas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Miller, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Miller, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Mitchinson, Shipley Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Moody, John Age: 20 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 59, 61 Name: Mustard, Henry Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Nesbit, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Nesbit, Ralph Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 86 Name: Nesbit - Age: boy Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 86 Name: Nesham, W Colliery or Pit.: Nesham's Page: 16 Name: Nicholson, Lancelot Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Noble, James Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63, 66 Name: Noble, William Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 63 Name: Pattern, John Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Patterson, W Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 44 Name: Patton, John Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 98 Name: Pigg, Robert Colliery or Pit.: South Shields Page: 51 Name: Potts, John Colliery or Pit.: Kenton Page: 90 Name: Pratt, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Ramsay, - Colliery or Pit.: Elswick Page: 17 Name: Reay, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Reay, William Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 86 Name: Redhead, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Reed, - Colliery or Pit.: Whitehaven Page: 17 Name: Renwicks, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Renwicks, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Richardson, George Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Richardson, Emanuel Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Richardson, James Colliery or Pit.: Manor Wallsend Page: 39 Name: Richardson, James Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Richardson, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 23 Name: Richardson, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Richardson, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 62 Name: Richardson, - Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Robinson, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Robinson, John Colliery or Pit.: Nesham's Page: 16 Name: Robson, Edward Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Royalty, James Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Royalty, Job. Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Scott, John Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Scott, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Smith, John Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Stokoe, - Colliery or Pit.: Coxlodge Page: 67 Name: Scott, William Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69 Name: Sharp, - Colliery or Pit.: Nesham's Page: 17 Name: Short, Alex Age: 18 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Short, Alex Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Short, John Age: 16 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61

6 Name: Short, Ralph Age: 10 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Skipsey, John Colliery or Pit.: South Shields Page: 44 Name: Smith, Ralph Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 53 Name: Smith, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 62 Name: Stott, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Swaddle, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Southern, Anthony Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Southern, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Southern, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Southern, William Colliery or Pit.: Willington Page: 30 Name: Southern, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Stanley, William Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: 69, 71 Name: Steel, Edward Colliery or Pit.: Nesham's Page: 16 Name: Steel, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Steel, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Story, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 82 Name: Stobbs, Walter Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6, 8 Name: Swinburn, - Colliery or Pit.: South Shields Page: 51 Name: Stephenson, Alex Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Stephenson, George Age: 18 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Stephenson, James Age: 16 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Taylor, John Age: 25 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Taylor, John Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 58 Name: Thaw, George Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Thaw, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Thaw, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Thompson, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Thompson, William Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Thompson, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Todd, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Turnbull, John Colliery or Pit.: Ouston Page: 71 Name: Turner, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Cowpen Page: 36 Name: Turpin, Ralph Colliery or Pit.: Backworth Page: 83 Name: Tweddle, John Colliery or Pit.: Benwell Page: 40 Name: Urwin, David Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 7 Name: Urwin, - Colliery or Pit.: Howden Page: 40 Name: Waddle, John Colliery or Pit.: Percy Main Page: 71 Name: Waddle, William Colliery or Pit.: Hebburn Page: 84 Name: Wagget, John Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 86 Name: Watson, [John] Colliery or Pit.: Nesham's Page: 16 Name: Watson, John Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Watson, John Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 54 Name: Watson, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Walton, John Age: 12 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Weardale, John Age: 28 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 60 Name: Wheatley, John Age: 55 Colliery or Pit.: Harraton Page: 61 Name: Wheeler, - Colliery or Pit.: Killingworth Page: 29 Name: Wheldon, David Colliery or Pit.: Wallsend Page: 38 Name: Widderington, Henry Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6 Name: Widderington, Ralph Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 6

7 Name: Wilkinson, William Colliery or Pit.: Jarrow Page: Name: Wilson, Michael Colliery or Pit.: Heaton Page: 8 Name: Wilson, Robert Age: boy Colliery or Pit.: Collingwood Main Page: 72 Name: Wilson, Thomas Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 35 Name: Wind, George Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Wind, William Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Young, James Colliery or Pit.: Sheriff Hill Page: 10 Name: Young, Robert Colliery or Pit.: Percy Pit Page: 23 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/1 Use and power of gunpowder Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/3 Creation dates: 31 Dec July 1815 Causes of accidents in various pits, including plan of workings at Isabella Pit, Sheriff Hill Related Material (see persons index) Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/15 Creation dates: 1815 Run on Newcastle Banks, July 1815 Accidents, 31 July - 21 Aug 1815 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/18 Weights and measurements

8 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/19 Creation dates: 1 Sept 1815 Description of a balloon ascent by Mr Sadler, including diagram of the apparatus for filling the balloon Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/23 Creation dates: 13 Sept - 31 Oct 1815 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/24 Production of coke from coal at Glasgow Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/25 Creation dates: Newspaper cutting re the balloon ascent (as 19 above) [Sept 1815] Newspaper cutting re an accident at Beaujonc Mine near Liege, Belguim on 28 Feb 1812, 1814 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/29 Creation dates: 3-10 Nov 1815

9 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/30 Creation dates: 1815 Collapse of the seamen's strike, 22 Oct 1815 Accidents Nov 1815 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/31 Creation dates: 9 Dec 1815 Description of a visit by the Archdukes John and Lewis of Austria to Percy Main Colliery and Shields Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/34 Creation dates: 8-18 Dec 1815 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/37 Creation dates: 29 Dec 1815 Tyne flood Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/38 Creation dates: Jan - 29 April 1816

10 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/41 Creation dates: May 1816 Progress of the pitmen's strike Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/43 Creation dates: 1816 Accident, 14 June 1816 Collapse of banks, July 1816 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/44 Creation dates: 1816 Overturning of the North Briton Coach, 16 Aug 1816 Accidents, 28 Aug - 20 Sept 1816 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/45 Creation dates: Presentation to Sir Humphrey Davy, 11 Oct 1816 Discovery of spots on the sun, Dec 1810

11 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/46 Creation dates: 15 April 1817 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/47 Creation dates: Table of thermometrical observations, showing temperatures in various places in mines Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/50 Creation dates: Table of average air temperatures at Jesmond by James Losh Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/51 Creation dates: 27 May - 3 Nov 1817 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/72 Creation dates: 1-26 Nov 1817 Dispute over the invention of the safety lamp

12 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/75 Creation dates: [1817] Dimentions of keels and chaldron waggons Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/79 Creation dates: 18 Dec Aug 1818 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/84 Creation dates: 27 July 1818 Visit of the Grand Duke Michael, Mr Mohs of Frieburg and Count Bremner Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/86 Creation dates: 5 Aug - 2 Oct 1818 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/90 Creation dates: 1818 Estimate of coal consumption in England and Wales by Wm Chapman Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/91

13 Creation dates: 4 Nov 1818 Visit of the Archduke Maximillian of Austria Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/93 Creation dates: Feb - March 1819 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/94 Creation dates: Underground wooden waggonway at St Anthony's Colliery in 1776, March 1819 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/95 Creation dates: 19 July 1819 Accidents Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/102 Creation dates: July 1823 Section of stone quarries at Portland Island Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/105

14 Table showing the burning qualities of coal from various Tyne and Wear Collieries Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/30/107 Creation dates: 1825 Description of a visit to Brunel's work on the Rotherhide Tunnel

15 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31 Colliery Memoranda Creation dates: [c. Mid-late 19th Century] Extent and Form: 82 pp Volume containing sections of strata, in the following Seams & collieriesnd. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/1 Bensham Seam. A Pit, Wallsend Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/2 High Main Seam. Heaton Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/3 High Main Seam. A Pit, Wallsend Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/4 High Main Seam. G Pit, Wallsend Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/5 High Main Seam. Percy Pit, Percy Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/6

16 High Main Seam. Howden Pit, Percy Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/7 High Main Seam. Percy Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/8 High Main Seam. Engine Pit, Collingwood Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/9 High Main Seam. Jane Pit, Walker Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/10 High Main Seam. Walker Pit, Walker Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/11 Bensham Seam. A Pit, Collingwood Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/12 High Main Seam Fawdon Colliery.

17 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/13 Yard Coal Seam. Chance Pit, Collingwood Main Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/15 High Main Seam. A Pit, Killingworth Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/16 High Main Seam. Killingworth Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/18 High Main Seam. A Pit, Backworth Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/21 High Main Seam. Discovery Pit, Felling Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/23 High Main Seam. Holly Hill Pit, Felling Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/25 High Main Seam. South Hebburn Colliery.

18 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/28 High Main Seam. Hebburn Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/30 High Main Seam. Graham, Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/31 High Main Seam. Waterloo, Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/32 High Main Seam. Church, Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/33 High Main Seam. Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/34 High Main Seam. Manor Wallsend Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/35 Yard Coal Seam. Murton Colliery.

19 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/36 High Main Seam. Isabella Pit, Sheriff Hill Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/37 Low Main Seam. Murton Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/38 Yard Coal Seam. King Pit, Sheriff Hill Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/39 Five Quarter Seam. Sheriff Hill Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/40 Low Main Seam. Isabella Pit, Sheriff Hill Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/41 Beaumont Seam. King Pit, Sheriff Hill Colliery.

20 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/42 High Main Seam. Washington (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/43 Maudlin Seam. Washington (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/44 Low Main Seam. Washington (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/45 Hutton Seam. Washington (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/46 Five Quarter Seam. Urpeth (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/48 High Main Seam. Conquest Pit, Tanfield Moor Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/52 High Main Seam. Delight Pit, Pontop Pike Colliery.

21 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/53 Hutton Seam. North Pit, Pontop Pike (incomplete) Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/54 Hutton Seam. Loud Pit, Pontop Pike Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/60 Five Quarter & Low Main Seam. Engine Pit, Jesmond Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/61 Five Quarter & Low Main Seam. Engine Pit, Jesmond Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/62 Five Quarter & Low Main Seam. B Pit, Jesmond Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/63 Bensham Seam. Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/64 Bensham Seam. Jarrow, Fredrick's North Way. Colliery.

22 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/65 Bensham Seam. West Drift, Jarrow Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/66 Bensham Seam. Black Wall, Jarrow Grange Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/67 Bensham Seam. South or Broad Stains, Jarrow Grange Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/68 Bensham Seam. Click-him-in, Jarrow Grange Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/71 Five Quarter Seam. D Pit,? Penshaw Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/72 High Main Seam. D Pit,? Penshaw Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/73 Maudlin Seam. B Pit Colliery.

23 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/74 Low Main Seam. A Pit Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/75 Hutton Seam. B Pit Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/76 Maudlin Seam. Herrington Mill Pit Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/77 High Main Seam. Machine Pit, Rainton Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/78 Hutton Seam. North Pit, Rainton Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/79 High Main Seam. Herrington Mill Colliery.

24 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/80 Low Main Seam. Elswick Colliery. Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/31/82 Five Quarter Seam. Stuart Pit, Pontop Pike Colliery.

25 NRO 3410/Bud/32-34 Colliery Reports. Related Material For additional colliery reports see main series of Memoranda Books, Bud/1-31, Bound Volumes, Bud/50-58 and Miscellaneous Papers, Bud/ Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32 Colliery Reports Creation dates: Extent and Form: 347 pp Physical characteristics: Vellum bound volume, 32 x 20cm, entitled Valuation Book on front and Samuel Wormald's, 1826 on fly leaf, coat of arms of Buddle Atkinson family inside front cover. Volume containing reports, estimates and accounts of William Stobart and others, Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/1 Creation dates: 1823 Detailed valuation of Hetton Colliery, including ownership, sections of seams, ventilation, rents, working costs and stock, by William Stobart and Nicholas Wood, 1823, with report re valuation, 6 Sept 1823 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/58 Creation dates: June 1824 Valuation of Killingworth, Willington and Heaton for the purpose of fixing a parish rate, by Thomas Easton, George Hill and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/71

26 Estimate of costs for driving a stone drift at Jarrow Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/75 Creation dates: 6, 13 Sept 1824 Report re the new winning at Seghill Colliery with estimates of profits, by William Stobart at the request of John Watson Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/81 Creation dates: 23 Feb 1819 Estimate of costs for erecting a Trevithick Winding Engine near Copelands House Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/83 Estimate of working costs for Adlington Colliery, Cheshire Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/85 Estimate of production and haulage costs to Hauxley Staith Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/87

27 Creation dates: 24 Sept 23 Oct 1824 Request by William Stobart for a determination of a fair rent for the renewal of the lease of New Washington Colliery from Messrs Shafto and Lawson and for a new winning, with proposals for rents by Thomas Easton and George Hill Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/90 Creation dates: April 1823 Calculation of working costs and profits for Hetton Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/115 Notes re coal measures Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/117 Notes re estimating the produce of coal seams Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/122 Creation dates: 21 March 1810 Report re Plessey Colliery including drainage measures and the erection of a fire engine and working methods, by John Watson, Edward Steel and George Johnson at the request of William Stobart for Sir Matthew White Ridley

28 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/125 Report re the difficulty of valuing Waldridge Colliery because of lack of data and the location of the colliery, by W.S. and J.B. [William Stobart and John Buddle], n.d Report re Ouston Colliery, with reference made to a report by William Brown, 14 Nov 1764, re the problems with water which may be experienced if making a new winning, by J.B. [John Buddle] and queries re the rights of Sir R. Milbank to the use of the Lambton waggonway for Ouston coal, by J.B. and W.S. [John Buddle and William Stobart] Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/129. c.1814 Petition from the coal owners and fitters of Sunderland to Parliment for a reduction in coal duties Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/131 Creation dates: 4, 18 Jan 1811 Queries re Manor Wallsend Colliery including ventilation, working methods in the new winning and exploration of further reserves, with recommendations by William King, William Stobart, John Buddle, Edward Steel, Thomas King and George Johnson Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/135 Creation dates: 1 March 1813

29 Queries by Taylor Winship re Cowpen Colliery including measures to counteract the effects of a creep with recommendations by Thomas Fenwick, John Buddle, John Watson and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/140 Estimate of working costs for Eighton Moor and Ravensworth Collieries, by Edward Steel and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/143 Creation dates: 7, 8 Dec 1810 Report re current workings at Rothwell Haigh Colliery (Yorkshire) including mention of different working methods being used, by William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/145 Creation dates: 31 May 1824 Observations on the renewal of the Etherley Colliery lease, by Thomas Fenwick Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/150 Creation dates: 10 Aug 1824 Report re the possibilities of producing coal from an area of common near Macclesfield (Cheshire) with table of charges made for boring in the north east, by William Stobart, John Charlesworth and George Maddison

30 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/154 Creation dates: 15 Nov 1815 Valuation of Newbottle Colliery, belonging to J.B. Nesham Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/160 Creation dates: 1 July 1799 Valuation of the interest of Sir Francis Blake and Sir John Thorald in Harraton Moor Collieries, by John Buddle and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/163 Creation dates: 1779 Report re the coal under the estates at West and East Brunton, Dinnington, Wideopen, Weetslade and Fawdon, by William Brown, n.d. and note re the above estates sent to Mr Jonathon Ormston for advertising Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/166 Creation dates: 13 July 1797 Report re the possibility of producing coal from the Brinsip, West Houghton and Upholland Estates, Lancashire, by William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/168 Notes re the coal seams in the Tyne and Wear area, giving various names

31 by which they are known Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/169 Creation dates: 16 June 1800 Table of prices of coal from various collieries as sold to fitters Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/170 Creation dates: 13 Dec May 1827 Reports re current workings and estimates of working costs for Etherley, Railey Fell and Bitchburn Collieries, by Edward Arkless and Samuel Wormald Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/182 Creation dates: 6 March 1824 Calculation of prices of canal coal delivered to London Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/185 Creation dates: Table showing the vend of coast and foreign shipping of coal from Newcastle, Blyth and Sunderland Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/187 Creation dates: 12 Jan - 17 April 1827

32 Papers re the allocation of vend leases for the Wear, including letter from John Martindale [secretary, Coal Owners Association], list of bases 1825, evidence from the owners and viewers and correspondence and minutes of meetings re the vend allocation by Benjamin Thompson, Matthew Plummer and William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/209 Specimen pitmen's bond, not completed Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/216 Creation dates: 1795 Report re proposed improvements to Hartlepool Harbour with estimate of costs, by R. Dodd, engineer, for the Corporation Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/234 Creation dates: 2 Nov 1824 Physical characteristics: Copied from the Monthly Magazine, Vol 59, p.486. Report re the comparative costs of turnpike roads in various counties in Britain, with queries re paving in London, by John Farey, Mineral Surveyor Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/239 Location of Originals

33 Copied from the Monthly Magazine No 406, p.43. n.d. Table of the highest buildings and mountains known with their heights Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/245 Creation dates: Aug 1827 Half-yearly report re current workings at Rothwell Haig Colliery, by Samuel Wormald for William Stobart Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/247 Memoranda re the inclined planes on the railway for transporting coal from Ouston Colliery to the Tyne Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/249 Creation dates: Table showing the Wear Vend, 31 Dec June 1829 and comparative vends, Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/250 Estimate for drainage of the new winning at Landore Colliery, Swansea, Glamorgan belonging to the Duke of Beaufort

34 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/254 Creation dates: 14 March 1818 Proposed terms for the renewal of the lease of Coxlodge Colliery from Mr Liddle to Messrs Brandling and Bell, submitted by Messrs Buddle and Watson Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/260 Report by John Buddle re the Forest of Dean Collieries, giving detailed reports re individual collieries including owners, seams, drainage and current workings with suggestions re revision of mining practices and regulations and the payment of tax Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/321 Creation dates: Table showing coal vended from Newcastle and imported into London Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/325 Creation dates: 1832 Account of the costs of shipping coal from Tanfield Lea Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/326 Creation dates: March 1822

35 Estimate of cost for building a railway from Jarrow to the Stanley area via Mount Moor Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/329 Creation dates: March 1822 Estimate of costs for transporting coal from Stanley Colliery to Mount Moor Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/330 Creation dates: [1822] Estimate of savings to be made transporting coal from Stanley direct to Jarrow Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/331 Creation dates: [1822] Estimate of costs for transporting coal from Mount Moor to Jarrow Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/332 Detailed account of charges paid for shipping coal Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/335

36 Creation dates: Statement of quantity of coal sold and prices from Tanfield Moor Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/336 Creation dates: 1831 Statement of working costs for Tanfield Moor and transport costs to Dunston Staith Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/337 Creation dates: Statement of wayleave costs from Tanfield Moor to Dunston Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/338 Creation dates: 1832 Account of profits on coal shipped from South Moor Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/339 Estimate of costs of transporting coal from Pontop Colliery to Dunston Staith

37 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/340 and 5 July 1800 Estimate of costs for drawing and working coal at Tanfield Moor Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/342 Statement of working costs for Whitley Pit Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/344 Statement of cost of building and maintaining a pumping engine at Westerleigh Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/32/346 Creation dates: 29 May 1833 Statement of costs for transporting coal from Tanfield Moor to Dunston Staith

38 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33 Colliery Reports Creation dates: Extent and Form: 294 pp Physical characteristics: Volume half bound leather, 37 x 26cm, with coat of arms of Buddle Atkinson family inside front cover Pages are blank Volume containing reports, estimates and valuations, , technical drawings and specifications for Boulton and Watt engines, and geological report, nd After p.18, Loose sheet, Boring account for Seaton Delaval Colliery, 19 May - 26 June 1843 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/1 Report re Sydney Colliery, Cape Breton, nova Scotia Related Material NRO 3410/Bud/19/270 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/18 Creation dates: 1 March 1796 Agreement between Messrs James Watt and Matthew Boulton, engineers and William Russell for the supply of a steam engine for Wallsend Colliery, incorporating the most recent developments and inventions lately patented by James Watt, with list of materials to be supplied and 12 detailed plans and elevations, with measurements Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/39 Creation dates: 6 May 1822

39 Specification costs and elevation, scale 1": 4' for a Boulton and Watt Engine Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/40 Creation dates: 17 June 1841 Detailed specification and costs for the supply of a Boulton and Watt 65h.p. winding engine for Tyne Main Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/43 Creation dates: 27 July 1840 Memoranda re the valuation of Thomas Barnes' share of Cramlington Colliery and detailed valuation of coal, colliery stock, profits and railway including statements of working and transport costs, by John Buddle, Nicholas Wood and Thomas Forster Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/76 Creation dates: Report re the financial state of Prudhoe and Wylam Collieries including details of leases and statement of working costs, sales, profits and rents for 1839, with recommendations for increased profitability, by R.T. Atkinson for Armourer Donkin, 17 Feb, 6 April 1840 and proposals made by Mr Boyd to Mr Thompson re working the colliery, April - May 1840 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/114 Creation dates: 25 Nov 1839

40 Elevation, costs and specifications of drops at Seaham Harbour Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/122 Creation dates: 18 Jan 1842 Correspondence, report and analysis of costs and production re a proposal by the owners of Black Boy Colliery to construct a private railway to the Clarence Railway unless the charges on the Stockton and Darlington Railway are reduced Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/144 Creation dates: 31 Dec 1842 Estimate of the cost of working and shipping Hastings Hartley Coal, based on costs for the adjoining Cramlington Colliery Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/156 Detailed report on the geology of the Newcastle Coal Field Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/33/234 Creation dates: Report and valuation re the following collieries for the Northern Coal Mining Co by Frank Forster - Cragwood and Storey Lodge, Willington, Stanley and Wooly, Whitelee and Old Roddy Moor, Greencroft, Crook Hall and Hownes and Andrews House, 26 Aug 1841 and Framwell-gate, 3 Jan 1842, with comments and additions to the above report, March 1842

41 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34 Colliery Reports Creation dates: Extent and Form: 109 pp Physical characteristics: Leather bound volume, 18 x 13cm, Vol 2 Volume containing reports and valuations by John Buddle and others re various collieries, Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/1 Creation dates: 6 March 1815 Report re Urpeth Colliery including available coal and drainage and estimate of production costs, by John Buddle, Thomas Fenwick and Edward Steel Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/6 Valuation of the lessors interest in East Sleekburn Royalty, by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/13 Creation dates: 27 Dec 1813 Report re the possibility of finding coal in the Hart Estate, including geological data, with section showing strata formation between Hartlepool and Cross Fell, by John Buddle

42 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/22 Valuation of coal under Hawthorn Moor Farm, Easington, belonging to Sir Matthew White Ridley, including plan of the farm showing adjacent owners scale 16ch: 1", by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/30 Report re the Littletown, Sherburn and Shadforth Coal Field including proposals for sinking, drainage and estimate of available coal, by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/37 Creation dates: 11 Sept 1843 Proposal for sinking 2 pits at Seaton Delaval Colliery, by William Coulson Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/38 Queries re the causes and effects of the explosion at Felling Colliery with recommendations, by Messrs Buddle, Watson and Easton Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/45 Creation dates: Report re measures to deal with the effects of the fire at Sauchie Colliery,

43 Clackmannan for the Earl of Mansfield, including sections of the seams, 11 Sept 1829 with appendix 8 March 1836 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/69 Creation dates: 9 Nov 1829 Report re Black Boy Colliery including current state of the colliery, sections of seams and estimated working costs with plan of workings in the Five Quarter Seam, and recommendations re future work, by John Buddle Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/83 Notes re the sinking and working of Harraton Colliery by Col John Lilburn in the 17th century including disputes before parliament re the title to the colliery and requestration for debts, taken from a book printed in 1653 Reference: NRO 3410/Bud/34/96 Creation dates: 1 July 1834 Location of Originals NRO 3410/Bud/19/270 Report re Sydney Colliery, Cape Breton